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GOOD GRIEF

With no real economic strategy, the Prime Minister is playing a dangerous game.
Listener: 26 December, 2009.
Keywords: Political Economy & History;
The reason the Government is thought to have a secret agenda is that it has no agenda. It has instincts, and commitments to keep, including ones to those that helped elect it, such as the well-off, [...]

26th December 2009 | Comments Closed

SOCIAL SECURITY AND ACC

Concluding remarks for ‘The ACC Debate: How Do We Pay for ACC?’, sponsored by the ACC Group. 15 December 2009, Auckland.
Keywords: Social Policy;
I am honoured to be asked to attempt to make some concluding remarks to such an interesting conference, and privileged to follow Sir Owen Woodhouse. We are so fortunate that we still [...]

15th December 2009 | Comments Closed

THE COMPLETE PACKAGE

Sue Bradford’s departure leaves a huge gap in the Greens, and Parliament.
Listener: 12 December, 2009.
Keywords: Regulation & Taxation; Social Policy;
To work properly, the market must be “complete” – that is, all possible transactions must be able to be carried out. For example, those who invested in finance firms such as Bridgecorp should have been able [...]

12th December 2009 | Comments Closed

A MULTIPOLAR WORLD ECONOMY?

Paper for NZIIA Seminar “New Zealand and the BRIC Group”, 24 November 2009
It may be useful to first read New Developments in Trade and Trade Theory.
Keywords: Globalisation & Trade;
I begin with a question; its answer eventually leads to an extraordinary scenario for the future of the world. ‘What two countries had the largest [...]

24th November 2009 | Comments Closed

THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME

Economic recovery means government spending restraints and higher taxes.
Listener: 21 November, 2009.
Keywords: Macroeconomics & Money;
In Through the Looking Glass, Humpty Dumpty warns us to be careful with the meaning of words. So what to call a world economy generally turning to custard? No one wanted to call it a “depression” because of the [...]

21st November 2009 | Comments Closed

NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN TRADE AND TRADE THEORY

<a name=”TOP”></a> NZIIA Mini-seminar on New Zealand’s Overseas Trade:  Policies and Practices One Hundred Years Experience of Overseas Trade Development. 9 November, 2009
Keywords: Globalisation & Trade;
Three centuries ago, there was little international trade. Almost all involved ‘absolute advantage’, the exchange of products which could not be locally produced. Because the cost of transportwas high, the [...]

9th November 2009 | Comments Closed

PAUL AND THE MODERN ECONOMY

<a name=”TOP”></a> Conference to Celebrate 25 Years of the St Andrews Trust for the Study of Religion and Society, 7 November, 2009.
Keywords: History of Ideas, Methodology & Philosophy;
I am traditionalist enough to begin a presentation in a church with a biblical text. Verses 5 to 10 of chapter 6 of the first pastoral epistle [...]

7th November 2009 | Comments Closed

THE BIG WAVE

Recent devastation in the Pacific has a parallel in the great New Zealand tsunami.
Listener: 7 November, 2009.
Keywords: Maori; Political Economy & History;
The sea grew dark and troubled and angry, and presently a great wave, which gathered strength as it came, swept towards the shore. It advanced over the beach, sweeping Titipa and all his fish [...]

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CHARACTERISTICS ASSOCIATED WITH HAPPINESS

This is the draft of a paper for 2009 Conference of the New Zealand Statistical Association, 3 September 2009. The presentation was a PowerPoint based on it. It is part of a study of the impact of drinking by associates undertaken by the  Centre for Social and Health Outcomes, Research and Evaluation (SHORE), Massey University. [...]

3rd November 2009 | Comments Closed

CASSANDRAS AND THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS

Spirited Conversations: Nelson, 29 October 2009.
 
Keywords: History of Ideas, Methodology & Philosophy;   Political Economy & History;
 
This evening’s presentation is about two terms which are homophones. I shall begin by talking about prophets – spelt p-r o-p-h-e-t-s. Later I shall talk about p-r-o-f-i-t-s. Both have a number of meanings, not least the [...]

29th October 2009 | Comments Closed
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